WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Cocke County residents who had damage or losses from Tropical Storm Helene are encouraged to visit FEMA's Disaster Recovery Center in the old Walmart Building in Newport to apply for FEMA disaster assistance. The center is staffed with specialists from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration and may have representatives from other organizations to help   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: To conduct a groundbreaking study of genetic data from more than half a million U.S. veterans, scientists needed tools of the kind found only at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "This particular study is probably the crown jewel of the field so far," said Ravi Madduri, a senior computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and senio  more